Bottle and can washer



(No Model.)

H. KOETHE.

BOTTLE AND CAN WASHER.

Patented Nov. 10., 1885..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY KOETHE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BOTTLE AND CAN WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,335, dated November 10,1885.

Application filed June I, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY KOETHE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle and Can Washers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This brush is composed of a plain tapering metal rod ,which is perforated entirely through to receive the bunches of bristles, the bristles being drawn in by wires (occupying longitudinal grooves between the perforations) and extending obliquely from the rod, except as to the end bunch, which extends axially.

Figure 1 is a side View of the brush, in use, a bottle being shown in section. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail side view. Fig. 3 is a detail section at 3 3, Fig. 5. Fig. 4 is a detail showing a part of 'the rod before the insertion of the bristles. Fig. 5 is a transverse section at 5 5, Fig. 2. Y

A rotary head, into which the brush-rod is secured in a usual manner, is shown at A,and

a bottle in position on the brush is shown at- B. O is the brush-rod, whose axis is in line with the axis of the head A. Through the rod are bored oblique holes D, to receive the folded end of the bristle-bunches E,which are drawn into the holes 0 by wires F. The holes D are madeconical in form, the larger end receiving the bunch E, so that as the bunch is drawn in it shall be pinched tighter. The

rod is made with grooves G, to receive the wire, which is thus sunk in the rod and does not extend beyond the surface of the same.

Serial No. 134,213. (No model.)

the end of the rod is a bristle hole, D,which, like the holes D, is made conical or tapering, and is made to communicate at its inner end with one of the holes D, or has other passage leading from its inner end to the side of the rod for the passage of the draw-wire F.

The brush is shown with two wings, H H, each consisting of a line of bristle-bunches, and with the end tuft, E, consisting of a single bunch. The wings are set angularly with each other.

"When the brush is inserted to full depth in the bottle, the tuft or bunch E spreads over the bottom,and the wing H, owing to the obliquity of the bristles, also extends to the bottom of the bottle.

The bunches E may extend at right angles from the rod; but I prefer that they should be oblique, as they accommodate themselves more easily to bottles of different diameters, and by being inclined, as shown, they reach the bottom of the bottle.

I claim as my invention A bottle or can washer, comprising a rod, O.formed with perforationsD entirely through the rod, hole D in the end of the rod, and grooves G in the surface of the red, the bristles E, inserted in the perforations and forming wings H and H, set angularly to each other, tuft E in the end hole, and wires F, threaded through the folds of the bristles and tuft, and occupying the groovesin the surface, substantially as set forth.

HENRY KOETHE.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

